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Well, well. So BBC/NWO/ZOG mouthpiece Marianna Spring falsified her background in order to get a job. Who would have thought it? What other lies has she put about?
Sanna Marin is another one of the puppets of the transnational conspiracy. Just like Justin Trudeau. Just like Jacinda Ardern. Many others too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12493711/Climate-scientist-wildfires-published.html.
More “climate change” lies.
Terrible. Britain in 2023.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/06/gerry-bermingham-obituary
Not someone I knew personally, though he was pointed out to me at Harrow Crown Court in 1992, he having become briefly notorious by reason of his apparently tangled sex life. An MP and barrister.
The Guardian obit is rather poor, and the Wikipedia entry too. Neither says much about the scandals that were part of the reasons why Bermingham’s political career ground to a halt. Also, the Guardian says that his second wife, married in 1978, was a senior lawyer with the CPS. Perhaps later, but not in 1978; the CPS was only established in 1986.
Oddly enough, one of my first wife’s colleagues, an American girl, told me, at a baseball game at the old (now-demolished) Veterans’ Stadium in Philadelphia, that she had done an internship with Gerry Bermingham at Westminster. That baseball game must also have been in 1992, or maybe 1991.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Bermingham. Bermingham started out as a solicitor, but later converted to the Bar.
Interesting. I have now again updated my very popular blog post from 2019, which was an assessment of Rory Stewart, and which has been occasionally updated, to include this new information: see https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/05/03/will-rory-stewart-mp-be-prime-minister/
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I wonder how much of the American taxpayers money has been stolen. Still, wasted either way, I suppose…
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…and, incredibly, as of today there are 365 utter mugs still paying out £3.50-£44 each, monthly, via the Patreon website, to the “grifter”/fraudster who calls herself “Jack Monroe”.
A very good cause.
Another very good cause.
It would help if msm outlets such as the BBC, Sky News etc stopped their one-sided pro-“Ukraine” (Kiev regime) propaganda and actually tried to report accurately on the conflict.
No wonder that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men, and now also women, are desperately trying to avoid being conscripted.
“I was stopped by a man just outside Parliament yesterday evening. He introduced himself as a civil servant. He told me to ‘keep doing what you are doing, everyone knows it’s the truth. The establishment are very worried because they know what’s coming down the track for them!’ This is not the first civil servant to say this to me in private . They all know the truth and they all know it has to be exposed.“
The Westminster monkeyhouse…
The BBC found a well-paid niche for a young woman unafraid of making up lies to look like the truth— Marianna Spring.
I wonder what is the real or full provenance of Marianna Spring.
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The out-of-control “woke” police of the state of Victoria, Australia, arresting a girl who refused to wear a mask-muzzle during the “Covid” scamdemic/panicdemic of a couple of years ago.
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Ian Robert Millard 
Wonderful news from the Woodfield Animal Sanctuary and Vauxhall City Farm. If I lived near a place like that, I would volunteer to help in any way possible. Living in the heart of a horrible city you are just another ant.
I wonder how many “job interviews” Marianna Spring had before getting the job of “top fact-checker”
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Claudius:
Those two charities are very good. I only recently discovered Woodfield Animal Sanctuary; Vauxhall City Farm I have known about for many years.
Marianna Spring: I doubt that she had many people or organizations interested in her, but she obviously fitted *someone’s* requirements. Indeed, her dishonesty about her CV may actually have helped her to get her present “disinformation” job.
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Hello Ian! I am watching an interesting video about Knightsbridge; do you know a rather famous Russian restaurant called “Mari Vanna”? It seems to be very good according to Tripadvisor:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g186338-d3156322-Reviews-Mari_Vanna-London_England.html
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Claudius:
I am just reading the reviews from customers; most are very critical.
I had not heard of this restaurant; obviously set up after I lived in London.
The prices seem very high— £10 for “aubergine caviar”?! What the Russians call “baklazhannaya ikra”. Basically aubergine (Am/.Eng. “eggplant”) paste. A starter or side dish. I should not expect to pay more than £5 for that.
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Thank you for your input. Anyway, I shall never go there (I mean Knightsbridge) to eat; it is obviously a tourist trap and also a terribly expensive area since it is populated by millionaires.
According to my beautiful “friend” Hannah (LOL) the average price for a Victorian terraced house there is £ 15.000.000. Therefore, everything is priced accordingly.
As an old friend of mine said once: “There is a far better world; unfortunately, it is awfully expensive” (LOL)
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Claudius:
Like Heaven, which is said to be better than this Earth, but which has one very significant drawback: once you are in, you cannot get out again (supposedly).
The Russians of the middle/late Soviet era used to say the same about some of those “closed cities”; they had far better conditions, and living standards, than the generality of the Soviet Union, but also the drawback that, once a person lived there, he or she found it hard to leave, even for a visit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city
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Hi Ian,
Guess where this very apt and descriptive quote came from?
“The events of the first day alone gave me enough to keep me thinking for a few weeks. The intellectual content of what they said was at an extremely depressing level, that is, if you could understand their chatter at all.
It was a wild commotion with gesturing, yelling and interruptions in every tone of voice. In the middle of it all was a harmless old man who was trying his best to restore the dignity of the house by violently ringing a bell and shouting in a soothing way, then in warning tones. I could not help laughing.
a few weeks later, I visited the chamber again. The scene was transformed beyond recognition. The hall was almost empty. Down below, people were asleep. A few deputies were in their seats, yawning at one another while one of them ‘spoke’. A vice president of the house was present and he looked over the chamber with visible boredom.”
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Ross:
Hello.
Mein Kampf? A description by Adolf Hitler of his visit, aged (?) ~20 to the Austro-Hungarian Parliament in Vienna, circa (?) 1910.
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One of the most famous and glamorous hotels in Knightsbridge is the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hyde Park. Its “star” chef is a fellow called Heston Blumenthal, a Jew, as I guessed. Would you believe that this awfully glorified and overrated cook got an OBE?
Having said that, nowadays anyone gets that pathetic and meaningless award. I remember reading that by the mid XX century it was already in such disrepute that it was known as “Order of Britain’s Everybody” (LOL)
This clown has even received honorific degrees from three universities!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heston_Blumenthal
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Claudius:
That used to be called, in the 1970s, the Hyde Park Hotel. Rather snooty but not very good, like several British institutions both then and now. Went in once c.1979 for a coffee with a friend, only to be ignored. Walked out.
As for Heston Blumenthal, the OBE honour is usually known as “Other Buggers’ Efforts”, meaning that the recipient got the award for sitting atop the efforts of his team or employees. I knew someone (father of my then girlfriend) who got an OBE for building the M4 motorway. I also saw, about 15 years ago, that a woman I had known —only slightly– in the 1980s., got a lesser award (MBE) “for fostering relations with Russia”. As I (perhaps impolitely) observed to a colleague, “in her case, carnal ones”…
I notice that Blumenthal’s Wikipedia entry leaves out the incident when diners at the Fat Duck (his restaurant in Berkshire), who had paid about £300 each, were all poisoned!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heston_Blumenthal
Until fairly recently, my local supermarket (Waitrose) stocked Blumenthal products, which were no better (sometimes less pleasant) than the Waitrose own-brand stuff that cost half the price. I noticed that Blumenthal’s stuff was often reduced in price and still unsold. Waitrose had to axe his food in the end:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11794033/Waitrose-axes-Heston-Blumenthal-bosses-tired-working-distant-chef.html
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Loved that definition of the OBE (Other Buggers’ Efforts) LOL
Very true. Incidentally, I despise most of these “celebrity” chefs.
I was living in Australia when that unbearable, overrated and awfully vulgar “Jamie” Oliver was turned into a “star” by the media. I was working in an important picture-framing company in 2000 and I had the opportunity to talk with an executive from Fremantle Media Australia to coordinate the framing of a series of photos and posters promoting Jamie Oliver’s DVDs and books.
It was all a publicity stunt carefully organized by Fremantle Media and the BBC. Somebody decided to turn this gifted young cook into a “star”; there was nothing exceptional about him. Was it a coincidence that in 1999 his show “The Naked Chef” was a hit and, the same year, his book became a best-seller?
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Claudius:
Not to mention the apparently pointless or irrelevant title “The Naked Chef”.
BTW, when I was a child in Australia, late 1960s, the big TV “celebrity chef”, one of the first of the breed, I think, was Graham Kerr, who lived a mile or so from my family (Mosman/Cremorne area). A friend of mine pointed out his children once to me. He was very much of his era, but his food was too rich for a later time and, like another big 1960s chef, Robert Carrier (I like his stuff), Kerr fell out of favour with the public.
I am surprised now to see on Wikipedia that Kerr is still around, though very old, and that he lives somewhere near Seattle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Kerr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carrier_(chef)
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Thank you for those Australian chefs I did not know. You must have known this English chef who was very famous in Australia when I arrived there in 1994. He seems to have been a nice man and a colourful character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Floyd
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Claudius:
Thank you but I obviously failed to explain completely. Robert Carrier *was* an early “celebrity chef” of the postwar era, but was *not* Australian. An American who lived mostly in the UK and France as an adult.
As for Keith Floyd, I expect that he could be pleasant when he wanted to be, and when not too drunk. Basically alcoholic.
Keith Floyd’s TV programmes are among the most entertaining in the genre, but he was not a “chef” in the same way as are, inter alia, Rick Stein or Gordon Ramsay. He had had some limited training, but was not a fully-trained chef (Wikipedia calls him a “celebrity *cook*”).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Floyd
I liked what I saw of Floyd on TV. He is the kind of real if flawed person rarely seen in the UK today. Today, the “celebrities” are all boringly (and fake) “perfect” in character, or (and/or) sadly sinful…their sins are sad and even those sins are boring.
I should add that my wife did, some years before we met, encounter Floyd, very drunk, very rude, and rather misogynistic (despite or because of his 4 failed marriages?) at a few social gatherings. The encounters were apparently not very friendly.
As I said, I enjoy his TV programmes, not least the one when, drunk, he nearly set fire to his location, I think an offshore rig. He set fire to his film locations a few times, in fact…
His shows always made me laugh.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Stein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Ramsay
I like Rick Stein’s TV shows. Floyd, though, had an incredible and infectious joie de vivre.
Have you seen The Two Fat Ladies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Fat_Ladies
I met Clarissa Dickson-Wright once. In fact, though I cannot really cook much, I *am* following in her footsteps in one way— she too was disbarred, but in her case for being repeatedly drunk in court.
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Thank you very much for all the information regarding Floyd. I guessed he was a drunk and I am quite sure that must have played a very important role in his failed marriages.
I remember watching “Two Fat Ladies” in Australia (around 1998 I believe). An Aussie friend of mine called them “Dykes on Bikes” (LOL) Australians have a wonderful and irreverent sense of humour. I like them very much.
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